I have never met a security eng who work more than 4 years in the same company. I am convinced the streets are flooded with people who know the security schemes of their previous employers. Which IMHO is worst than knowing the never changing passwords.
Call me crazy but I think U.S will greatly benefit if there are no more CS or any computer graduates for the next 10 years. This country lacks appreciation for good engineering and science to the point where posts like the above is practically true. CS is a field too abused in school and in the corporate world.
Can we learn from the lesson of Java that M$ is not the company that should be setting the standard for anything industry based. They always come out with their own modified version of XYZ and make everybody else play with them.
No! It's one thing to complain as a blogger. It's another to complain as a blogger while getting paid $$$millions like T.O. You, the student, are a customer to the university. You are the one paying in most cases. And if you are getting full scholarship, the school want something from you.
When the school makes money off you and tell you to shutup, it's plain wrong. Tell them to go to hell, doesn't matter if you're 20 years old and they are a 200 year institution. If a company is paying you and tell you to shutup, perhaps that is more acceptable. Since you are complaining on their expense.
Yeah I got Rhapsody too. Someone recommended it on slashdot ages ago and it has IMHO topped Napster in everyway. The occassional annoyance is the "buy-only" tracks for new albums. But those eventually go away and become freebie streams anyways.
It really opened up a market of artists and songs that I would ordinarily be too afraid to invest my money in. Now I listen to 1% mainstream and 99% underground. Only after Rhapsody would you realize how much shit has been flooding your local radio and MTV.
When they span more than a disk, the 2nd/3rd/4th disks all contain overlapping contents from the very 1st disk anyways. Don't know what there is to brag about.
I vow to not buy any EA game for the next 5 years or until whenever they reinstate the NFL license to allow 2K sport to make football games again. So I wouldn't know how bad madden has become.
It only matters that the U.S marketed it and brought it to the mass public. Without the market push, this shit will just be another protocol rotting in someone's bunker.
Amazon -- If you are looking for rare gems that are no longer published, this is the place to be.
Best Buy / Circuit City -- This is where I buy 99% of my new games. The $10 instant discounts help.
GameStop / EB -- I cannot stand the annoying platform pushers. When I come for a PS2 game, don't sell me a xbox. Anyhow I have to come back since they take back old games. But why does every store have to be a zoo.
Blockbuster -- Sometimes you can find a steal in the bargin bin.
Do you mean the other way around? Usually during a merger/acquisition people are let go due to overlapping positions. In a break up, everybody wins since there will now be 4x the need in a 4 way split.
I have a relative who did temp work for a rebate headquarter about 5 years ago. What they do is make you pay more upfront to fill up an accelerated "rebate" bank account. The interests earned here are used to pay you the $$. In the end, it is a win-win situation for the companies. It may or may not be a win situation for you.
It is possible that they have a weak support because they assume it is the 3lite techies buying Alienware boxes for PC gaming. 90% sounds way too high, that percentage almost justify closing shop. Could it be an issue with ATI and Nvidia cards overclocked and fried?
When Will Wright innovated the Sim, I had respect for him. After selling his soul to EA and milking the industry 4 years straight with endless expansion packs. I lost almost all respect.
Spores a good idea? I am not sold yet. Sounds like they want to sell you a game engine and you fill in the contents yourself. Could be an EA trap.
There is no such thing as "The One" in the U.S. That is an old tradition that does not apply here... where the average marriage last 10 years before a divorce. Numbers don't lie. I doubt video game is the #1 contributor to divorces, so this discussion is just a waste of time.
Most companies like to have a tiny support team, maybe 10 people. Then load the sales support and eng team with 30 people. This is an unfortunate sad trend in the US corporate world today. Everybody wants to make money off you upfront, but nobody gives a flying fuck about the product satisfaction 2 years later.
Can someone please define what an excellent FPS is nowadays. Does anyone else look at FEAR as an attempt to sell you a 3D engine in a box and not a game?
Dude I so agree with you. Substandard shit should not be tolerated, especially at a $400 price tag.
The 8bit NES did require massive dust cleaning to get the games to work. People were willing to tolerate it in the 80s because of the monopoly of dominent games. Xbox or 360 does not have that dominance. Not even close.
By today's standard, errors and blue screens just aren't acceptable on consoles. This is not PC hardware with a thousand drivers that is interchangable. This is 1 set of chips in a box. No excuse.
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I have never met a security eng who work more than 4 years in the same company. I am convinced the streets are flooded with people who know the security schemes of their previous employers. Which IMHO is worst than knowing the never changing passwords.
Call me crazy but I think U.S will greatly benefit if there are no more CS or any computer graduates for the next 10 years. This country lacks appreciation for good engineering and science to the point where posts like the above is practically true. CS is a field too abused in school and in the corporate world.
Well said man! Couldn't have said it better myself.
Wait. Who gets to decide certain song is considered crappy music. The RIAA better not be the judge.
Can we learn from the lesson of Java that M$ is not the company that should be setting the standard for anything industry based. They always come out with their own modified version of XYZ and make everybody else play with them.
No! It's one thing to complain as a blogger. It's another to complain as a blogger while getting paid $$$millions like T.O. You, the student, are a customer to the university. You are the one paying in most cases. And if you are getting full scholarship, the school want something from you.
When the school makes money off you and tell you to shutup, it's plain wrong. Tell them to go to hell, doesn't matter if you're 20 years old and they are a 200 year institution. If a company is paying you and tell you to shutup, perhaps that is more acceptable. Since you are complaining on their expense.
Yeah I got Rhapsody too. Someone recommended it on slashdot ages ago and it has IMHO topped Napster in everyway. The occassional annoyance is the "buy-only" tracks for new albums. But those eventually go away and become freebie streams anyways.
It really opened up a market of artists and songs that I would ordinarily be too afraid to invest my money in. Now I listen to 1% mainstream and 99% underground. Only after Rhapsody would you realize how much shit has been flooding your local radio and MTV.
Does anyone know of the status of emulator games on PSP? I have heard that emulator games were somewhat blocked at one point by a firmware.
Dude I think it is time for you to escalate to top google managment. Your rule is better than all 10 of theirs.
When they span more than a disk, the 2nd/3rd/4th disks all contain overlapping contents from the very 1st disk anyways. Don't know what there is to brag about.
All the money is going to the publishers. EA MUST fall as a prime example to all the other publishers in the video game industry.
The money has got to flow to the developers and game makers. Not the guy doing the marketing and printing the CDs on the shelf.
I vow to not buy any EA game for the next 5 years or until whenever they reinstate the NFL license to allow 2K sport to make football games again. So I wouldn't know how bad madden has become.
Well is there alot of earthquakes near Mount Everest at 29,017 feet? That is pretty damn high.
It doesn't matter who created it.
It only matters that the U.S marketed it and brought it to the mass public. Without the market push, this shit will just be another protocol rotting in someone's bunker.
Amazon -- If you are looking for rare gems that are no longer published, this is the place to be.
Best Buy / Circuit City -- This is where I buy 99% of my new games. The $10 instant discounts help.
GameStop / EB -- I cannot stand the annoying platform pushers. When I come for a PS2 game, don't sell me a xbox. Anyhow I have to come back since they take back old games. But why does every store have to be a zoo.
Blockbuster -- Sometimes you can find a steal in the bargin bin.
Do you mean the other way around? Usually during a merger/acquisition people are let go due to overlapping positions. In a break up, everybody wins since there will now be 4x the need in a 4 way split.
I have a relative who did temp work for a rebate headquarter about 5 years ago. What they do is make you pay more upfront to fill up an accelerated "rebate" bank account. The interests earned here are used to pay you the $$. In the end, it is a win-win situation for the companies. It may or may not be a win situation for you.
It is possible that they have a weak support because they assume it is the 3lite techies buying Alienware boxes for PC gaming. 90% sounds way too high, that percentage almost justify closing shop. Could it be an issue with ATI and Nvidia cards overclocked and fried?
When Will Wright innovated the Sim, I had respect for him. After selling his soul to EA and milking the industry 4 years straight with endless expansion packs. I lost almost all respect.
Spores a good idea? I am not sold yet. Sounds like they want to sell you a game engine and you fill in the contents yourself. Could be an EA trap.
I live in the US currently, but at one time I lived in Canada. Let me just sum it up nice and easy.
If you are in the lower class -> go US
If you are in the middle class -> go Canada
If you are in the upper class -> go US
Now AOL is in trouble as they are no longer the one to use keywords... oh wait...
There is no such thing as "The One" in the U.S. That is an old tradition that does not apply here... where the average marriage last 10 years before a divorce. Numbers don't lie. I doubt video game is the #1 contributor to divorces, so this discussion is just a waste of time.
Most companies like to have a tiny support team, maybe 10 people. Then load the sales support and eng team with 30 people. This is an unfortunate sad trend in the US corporate world today. Everybody wants to make money off you upfront, but nobody gives a flying fuck about the product satisfaction 2 years later.
Can someone please define what an excellent FPS is nowadays. Does anyone else look at FEAR as an attempt to sell you a 3D engine in a box and not a game?
Dude I so agree with you. Substandard shit should not be tolerated, especially at a $400 price tag.
The 8bit NES did require massive dust cleaning to get the games to work. People were willing to tolerate it in the 80s because of the monopoly of dominent games. Xbox or 360 does not have that dominance. Not even close.
By today's standard, errors and blue screens just aren't acceptable on consoles. This is not PC hardware with a thousand drivers that is interchangable. This is 1 set of chips in a box. No excuse.